We work in Mountain Home, and we come to you. The two of us answer the phone and do the measuring ourselves. The in-home estimate is free — there is never a charge to come out and measure, wherever you are.
Mountain Home sits at 3,150 feet on the edge of high desert, and the weather tells you most of what you need to know about window coverings before anybody measures anything.
The average high in July is 95 degrees. The record is 115. The town gets about ten and a half inches of precipitation in a whole year.
What that means at the window is heat and glare for months, mostly from the west and south — open desert light, low and direct from four o’clock on. Not the filtered light of an older street with mature trees over it.
Then January arrives, and the average low is 23 degrees. The record is 36 below. The same pane that was the hottest thing in the house in July is the coldest thing in it by February.
That swing is why a Mountain Home window deserves a different answer than a Meridian one. A covering here is not only about privacy and looks. It is doing real work on your power bill twice a year, in opposite directions.
Mountain Home grew in two distinct waves.
The first was the base. Mountain Home Air Force Base opened in 1943, and when it became a Strategic Air Command installation the town went from 1,887 people in 1950 to 5,984 in 1960 — more than tripling in a decade. A great deal of the housing built to absorb that is still standing and still lived in.
The second wave is recent: 11,143 people in 2000, 15,979 in 2020, and an estimated 16,779 today. That brought subdivision housing with larger windows, taller great-room glass and sliding patio doors.
One approach does not serve both, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Made in the USA as standard. Imported shutters are also available if you’d like a second price option.
Including zebra shades, honeycomb shades, and Roman shades — cordless options available for kids and pets.
Wood, faux wood, and aluminum options fitted to your exact windows.
For patios and covered porches.
This is the part a website usually skips, so here it is plainly. In the older houses around Mountain Home we find aluminum window frames, a lot of original older windows, and some genuinely old wood blinds still hanging.
Each of those matters:
Aluminum frames conduct. Metal moves heat straight through, which is why those frames are cold to the touch in February and often the first place condensation shows up. An insulating covering does more real work on an aluminum-framed window than on a modern one.
Older windows are rarely square. Houses settle. Openings that measured true when they were built do not now. This is exactly why we measure every window ourselves rather than working from a plan, a photograph or somebody else’s numbers.
Old wood blinds are usually past saving. Decades of desert sun warps slats and brittles cords. If that is what is hanging in your house, you are not choosing between repair and replacement — you are choosing what goes in next.
Out here the work runs mostly to faux wood blinds, roller shades and Roman shades.
There is a reason for that. Faux wood handles heat and dry air without warping the way real wood does. Roller shades in a solar fabric cut glare and heat without taking the view away — which matters when the view is part of why you live out here. Roman shades bring softness to a room that has a lot of hard desert light in it.
Shutters work beautifully in any house in Mountain Home, old or brand new, and choosing them is a matter of personal style. They also earn their keep in January, because a closed louver is one more surface between you and cold glass.
On a big west-facing window taking the full afternoon in August, a cellular or solar shade is usually fighting the harder battle — cellular traps air in its pockets, the same principle as a double-pane window. That is a statement about one window, not about your house.
We will bring samples and let you decide in your own light.
Owner-occupied housing in Mountain Home runs about 67 percent, which means roughly one home in three is a rental — a higher share than most of the valley, and the reason sits twelve miles southwest.
Families rotate through on assignments measured in a few years, not a few decades. Plenty of people want a house that looks finished and feels comfortable without treating it as a thirty-year investment. Those are legitimate jobs and we quote them as such. We will tell you honestly when a window does not need the most expensive thing in the van.
We are asked this often enough by people outside the Boise metro that it deserves a straight answer: we come out, and we are glad to.
Troy and Angela answer the phone. The two of us do the measuring ourselves — not a subcontracted measuring service, not an app, not a guess from a photo. Our team measures, quotes and installs every job, and you deal with the same two people from the first call to the last bracket.
The driving is not something we tolerate. It is how we have built relationships with the people we work for. Going the extra mile is the job.
And there is never a charge for the estimate. Not in Mountain Home, not anywhere else we go. If you are wondering whether a company out of Meridian will really drive to you, and what that will cost you — we will, and it costs nothing to find out what the work would involve.
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Between us, thirty years in the Treasure Valley — and the two of us measure every window in Mountain Home ourselves, every time. We’re not a franchise, and Angela can build a plantation shutter start to finish.
Call, text, or get a free quote below. Either one of us will get right back to you.
Tell us which rooms you’re covering and we’ll bring samples, measure, and put a real number in front of you. Free, and no pressure. Prefer to talk? Call or text 208.755.8583.
Rather not fill in a form? Call or text us — whatever is easiest for you.
That number takes texts as well as calls. On a computer, point your phone camera at the code — a text to us opens already written, so all you do is hit send.
Or send your details below and we will come back to you.
New home near the base or a longtime family home, we’ll bring the samples to you.
